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Well, I think that I've finally begun to gather some slang words and I would like to share a few Aussie-must-knows with you.
1) Vegemite is actually made from what was left after they made beer. Now, Aussies love this black, salty jam put on toast with butter, but it can also be used to cure zits and cold sores. I'm skeptical and avoiding it at all costs.
2) Coffee: I like a long black. Some like white cows. Still others like it with sugar (I forgot how to say that). But the best kind of coffee is plunger coffee!! This is just French Press coffe under a cooler alias. I love calling it a plunger!
3) Everyone is your mate. Not just that bloke in your phone, but also the woman next to you on the train. "No worries, mate." is the most common phrase I have heard yet.
4) Attempting to look like an Aussie has yet to work for me. I even bought the leggings! (I keep getting people who ask me where to go though, which is funny becaus I was about to ask them the same thing!) So, here are some dresscode rules to live by: skinny jeans, long shirts or cut off shirts, but they have to be oversized, straight hair and with your makeup done at all times, boots or keds are acceptable but no tennis shoes (tourist you are), also wearing all black is not gothic or strange, but quite an acceptable norm, oh and being an American gets you a free pass from all of this!
5) There is no supper. My Grandma has breakfast, dinner, then supper. Here it's brekkie, dinner, then tea. And what do you drink at tea, but tea. I have had so much tea that I could float away from it! But you never tell your host parents that you'll be back for dinner because that's like 12 or 1, always tell them you'll be back for tea.
6) Everything here is super expensive! The AUD and USD are about the same right now, but for some reason everything is quite expensive. A candy bar from the vending machine was about $2.60, but at school it's less than $1. Going to a restaurant is quite the ordeal and costs more than you bargained for.
7) There are no koalas in the city.
8) I have spotted cockatoos and larikins in the trees. This place is tropical bird paradise. Go into the nearest pet store, find the brightest bird, and it lives near me. I walk around in contsant terror, but c'est la vie.
9) There is a difference between a Native Australian and an Aboriginie. Natives are simply people that were born here and refers to mostly the "white fellas" while Aboriginies are people (use your Latin skills!) who were here before time (ab: before; origin: time...maybe). So, having said that: 60% of Sydney is Asian immigrants. There are so many people here who barely speak English, but consider themselves Australian. And everyone here is from an immigrant family, except for the Aboriginies.
10) When Aussies are shocked that you have not eaten, drank, or seen something, rest assured that before the week is out you will have eaten, drank, or seen it.